Good Cheer Food Bank will ring in the weekend with their annual Harvest Party and Music Fest.

The free event will take place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 13, at the Good Cheer Garden. Festivities include music from Julie Pigott and Friends, Swinging Nettles, Good Cheer Folks, The Muse and Eye and Quinn Fitzpatrick. Kid’s activities will include those provided by the Sno-Isle library as well as tile painting and other take-home projects. Food prepared by Good Cheer staff and volunteers, much of which will be harvested from the Good Cheer Food Bank Garden, will be served.

Along with the usual celebratory festivities, Good Cheer will honor guest Cary Peterson for her work to develop the Good Cheer Garden Program and its associated programs.

The Good Cheer Food Bank Garden in Bayview kicked off in 2009 and within the first year, 5,000 pounds of organic produce were harvested.

It later expanded to include contracts with other South Whidbey organizations and farmers through the Fresh Food on the Table program, which includes farmers markets and resulted in increased donations from local gardeners and farmers. According to a press release, in 2013 the total amount of local produce gleaned from these combined sources was 25,000 pounds. The Fresh Food on the Table program helped to produce goods for the food bank and lend an opportunity to educate the community about healthy growing and eating habits.

Peterson also developed the Community Gardening Leadership Program, which trains individuals in effective community gardening and leadership skills and assisted in the development of a number of additional community programs that nurture the farm to table relationship.

For more information about the Harvest Party and Music Fest, Good Cheer Food Bank and its programs, visit goodcheer.org.